Why did Microsoft abandon ,killed VB6?

[jj2007]

I took a really hard look at .Net, thinking it was going to be the way to the future. But, the thing I remember most was the fact that we couldn't even define arrays with user-defined lower and upper limits.

In 40 years of programming, I've never seen the need to define a lower limit different from zero. In year 1, I may have needed some time to adapt to the idea that programming languages, in contrast to humans, don't like to use 1 as the starting index. GfaBasic had an option to use 1 instead of zero - I never used it.

Elroy, this is not to say that VB6 is a bad language because it allows to use 1000...1999 as array bounds. But it explains the perceived resistance of VB6 programmers against change. You got used to that exotic feature, you don't want to miss it. But the developers of the new VB7 language think "no language needs lower bounds different from zero", and thus they prevent you from accepting VB7 (or VB.Net, C#, whatever).

There is no easy solution to that.